Re: [Pharo-users] Building UI with Spec vs Pharo

2014-07-09 Thread Johan Fabry
I see. Well, I think that given your long term goal the safest choice is to go with Spec, as it will provide you with more features that may be useful for your use case. On Jul 9, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Peter Uhnák wrote: > Well for the moment a diagram drawing tool (Class diagrams/State > machi

Re: [Pharo-users] Building UI with Spec vs Pharo

2014-07-09 Thread Stephan Eggermont
Not much has changed since then. If you can manage to get away with using a higher level framework, you save time and effort. Glamour has less choice in widgets and layout, but in both you'll probably end up adding something that isn't there/ready yet. To understand how to add/complete something

Re: [Pharo-users] Building UI with Spec vs Pharo

2014-07-09 Thread Peter Uhnák
Well for the moment a diagram drawing tool (Class diagrams/State machines/...), however the end goal (in a time and space far far away) is a CASE tool. So for the moment I need a visualization (provided by Roassal), some way to display hierarchical/tree data, forms, popups and such (basically what

Re: [Pharo-users] Building UI with Spec vs Pharo

2014-07-09 Thread Johan Fabry
Hi Peter, Spec is a user interface framework that is meant to be able to create any kind of user interface. On the other hand Glamour is meant for browser-like user interfaces where there is a flow from one element to another. So the answer is: it depends on what you want to do. Could you tell

[Pharo-users] Building UI with Spec vs Pharo

2014-07-09 Thread Peter Uhnák
Hi, what is the recommended framework for building UIs? As I understand it Spec should be able to handle pretty much anything, however Glamour has quite a lot of nice features and was recommended here http://forum.world.st/Roassal-amp-Spec-td4690745.html as a higher-level abstraction framework (al